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Caroline Nievergelt is a physical anthropologist interested in various aspects of human and non-human primate genetics and behavior. As a primatologist, she has studied behavioral, endocrinological, and genetic aspects of primate social and reproductive systems, including studies on New World Monkeys and lemurs in captivity and in the field in Madagascar.

 More recently, Dr. Nievergelt has been working on genetic and genomic approaches to human disease identification. She is especially interested in the development and application of statistical methods integrating population genetic and evolutionary aspects into human association studies. As a member of the Longevity Consortium, the International Kawasaki Disease Genetics Consortium, and the Bipolar Consortium, she has been involved in the mapping of disease loci for a broad range of human diseases and phenotypes in heavily stratified and admixed populations.

Dr. Nievergelt is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego.